Sorry. I just had to say that to somebody.
You’re brilliant.
If somewhat predictable.
Slan,
D.
You’re just jealous you did not come up with it first. I know I am!!!
hehe
I’ve been hearing this phrase for weeks now.
Can be a witty bunch these English.
Slan,
D.
I don’t think that I’ll bother watching the Greek Olympics-I was highly disappointed to see that these games will not feature the late Friday night north-east traditional sport of ‘Throwing the half eaten Kebab’…(yawn).
And before someone pipes up with “Kebab? is’nt that Turkey?”
The (predictable) answer is “No,it’s supposed to be Lamb!” 
Here in the Empire you wouldn’t know these Olympics are going on, if it wasn’t for the occasional feature on how insufficient the security apparatus is. Our news men seem to have become enamoured with the sight of burly men holding machine guns. Or maybe they only report on units they’re embedded in. 
It should change once they start winning some medals.
Don’t worry G.
The Empire will strike back.
Slan,
D.
My wife got to go to the 2000 games in Sydney while I stayed home with the kids. I always thought maybe I could go to the '04 games while she watched the kids! I’m still watching the kids… 
Either that or who the latest world class item to be kicked out of them for illicit drug use. :roll:
By 2008, it will be named the 2008 Drug-test-olympics. You pass, you get a medal.
Of course, the fact that they test for multitudes of stuff that isn’t performace enhancing doesn’t help.
How would you like to go to Greece, and after a Big Fat Greek meal, have to take a dose of Pepto and gettting busted for it? Apparently, since you didn’t want to compete with diareah, you cheated. Or like the winter olympics that first used snow boarding. The olympic commitee begged the long hairs that were snow boarding to come compete in olympics (they attracted a huge attendance) and then busted them for smoking dope. DUH! They were long hair snow boarders! Was a rocket scientist in charge of this? How could you say it was performance enhancing!?!?!
Next they’ll test olympic bowlers for drinking beer.
It would be much more exciting if they had an “anything goes” olympics.
3 minute miles. Pole vaulters jumping 40 feet. Tennis players with 4 arms. 12 foot tall basketball players. Swimmers with gills and fins.
Oh, I suppose the United States would be at a major disadvantage thoughy, since we don’t allow stem cell and cloning research. Probably why they don’t allow those things now. I guess it’s time to declair war on the olympics and go bomb them back to the…uh…Bronze Age.
I was actually expecting to see Nia Vardalos (the Big Fat Greek Bride) at the opening ceremony…
Does anyone else miss the way ABC’s Wide World of Sports used to cover the Olympics?
Even when I do manage to find a station that’s showing them now, I never quite know what’s going on. Except, of course, who America’s Olympic Sweetheart may be for that event.
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I don’t know why all the crying by the Athens Olympic committee that there are no spectators in the stands. I just finished watching women’s beach volleyball on the CBC and the stands were jammed pack.
There were some nice shots…ahem by the CBC of the participants but they weren’t wearing pants, jsut some skimpy two piece outfit that seem to take away from the game.
MarkB
I think I’m going to have greek food for my birthday this year. Of course I’ll have to loose some weight for it might become a big fat geek birthday.
My wife and I decided that the men’s beach volleyball competitors should wear tiny speedos and no shirts. What’s good for the goose…
Mike
Burnsbyrne wrote
My wife and I decided that the men’s beach volleyball competitors should wear tiny speedos and no shirts. What’s good for the goose.
Indeed! There was quite a ruckus in the pub last night, over what the ladies were calling sexest and thought that men should play volleyball in thongs! And they didn’t like some of the camera shots and angles!
The guys just sat there with their mouths open, even while playing in the session!
MarkB
The men and women’s shot-put event will be held at the orginal site of the Olympics. Just being in the staduim is probably enough to raise the hair on the back of your neck. But, to think of the way the original competitors dressed! Originally, all players competed in the nude. I wonder if that was to insure there’d be no cheating. Nah, I’m sure it was done with a festive atmosphere, kinda like Beach Volleyball. Too bad they didn’t let women compete back in the good old days.
One good thing about NBC having so many stations to show the games on is that they don’t just show 40 seconds of each sport before moving on, which has been a problem with past Olympic coverage. The problem is that some sports are ONLY shown on the cable stations, like CNBC and MSNBC, and I don’t have cable! I guess I’ll have to find someone willing to let me program their VCR if I’m going to see any of the Tae Kwon Do…
I heard on the radio that originally cheating by “magic” was considered a serious offense, so yes, copeting naked might have had something to do with that. People caught cheating by potions, charms and incantations were fined and ordered to errect a statue of Zeus. At the foot of the statue or tribute there was a warning to copete fairly.